The Attraction of Beauty
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
From R. Browning
This world’s no blot for us, not blank,
It means intensely, and means good.
From Creighton
The question about a work pf art is: is the picture true, real, living? Does it stand out distinctly? Does it leave a clear impression on your mind?
From Emerson
“Faithless and faint of heart,” the voice returned,
Thou seest no beauty save thou make it first,
Man, woman, nature, each is but aglass
Where the soul sees the image of herself,
Visible echoes, offsprings of herself.
The essence of the beautiful consists in amplitude and order. The excess in either gives the sublime and the pretty.
From Ruskin
High art consists neither in altering nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for “whatsoever things are lovely, and whatsoever things are pure”; in loving these, in displaying to the uttermost of the painter’s powers such loveliness as in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis. Art is great in exact proportion to the love of beauty shown by the painter, provided that love of beauty forfeit no atom of truth.
From G. Elliot
It seems to me that beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
From R. Browning
This world’s no blot for us, not blank,
It means intensely, and means good.
From Creighton
The question about a work pf art is: is the picture true, real, living? Does it stand out distinctly? Does it leave a clear impression on your mind?
From Emerson
“Faithless and faint of heart,” the voice returned,
Thou seest no beauty save thou make it first,
Man, woman, nature, each is but aglass
Where the soul sees the image of herself,
Visible echoes, offsprings of herself.
The essence of the beautiful consists in amplitude and order. The excess in either gives the sublime and the pretty.
From Ruskin
High art consists neither in altering nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for “whatsoever things are lovely, and whatsoever things are pure”; in loving these, in displaying to the uttermost of the painter’s powers such loveliness as in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis. Art is great in exact proportion to the love of beauty shown by the painter, provided that love of beauty forfeit no atom of truth.
From G. Elliot
It seems to me that beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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